Olympic oversight

• I would have thought that film director Danny Boyle would have added public hangings, child labour, keel-hauling, gunboats, slavery, inner-city squalor, a few colonial and world wars, and a massed military parade to add authenticity to his bucolic Olympic paradise opening ceremony.

• I would have thought that film director Danny Boyle would have added public hangings, child labour, keel-hauling, gunboats, slavery, inner-city squalor, a few colonial and world wars, and a massed military parade to add authenticity to his bucolic Olympic paradise opening ceremony.

K Nolan
Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim

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